A new inhibitor gives researchers the ability to control programmed cell death in cultured human T cells.

The Yale neuroscientist seeks to understand the brain’s architecture and function using C. elegans.

Introducing either necroptotic cells or an enzyme that triggers necroptosis can wipe out cancer.

Telomeres in cancer cells exposed to oxidative stress got shorter and stickier.

When hair follicle stem cells lose their protein-based death cue, they take on a new role helping to repair wounds in skin.

Internalizing the environment might be the next step in humans’ relationship with our planet.

Apoptosis and other types of programmed cell death appear to be reversible.

Molecular programs can rescue cells already engaged in the process of apoptosis or other forms of programmed cell death.

The biologist earned a Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on C. elegans.